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...because it's funSat, 21 Apr 2012 11:27:15 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2Artist of the Day – Nicoletta Ceccolihttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2012/04/21/artist-of-the-day-nicoletta-ceccoli/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2012/04/21/artist-of-the-day-nicoletta-ceccoli/#commentsSat, 21 Apr 2012 11:26:18 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.com/?p=209Nicoletta Ceccoli was raised and continues to live in her native Republic of San Marino. She studied animation at the Institute of Art In Urbino, Italy. She is an award-winning children’s book illustrator. Her clients include Random House, Simon and Shuster and Grimm Press as well as fashion company Diesel , United Airlines and fashion magazine Vogue.

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2012/04/21/artist-of-the-day-nicoletta-ceccoli/feed/0Artist of the Day – Jeremy Geddeshttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2012/03/05/artist-of-the-day-jeremy-geddes/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2012/03/05/artist-of-the-day-jeremy-geddes/#commentsMon, 05 Mar 2012 13:36:38 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.com/?p=190Jeremy Geddes is a photo realism painter and was born in NZ, grew up in Geelong and is currently located in Melbourne, Australia from where he works. After ART school he worked in Video development.

He has been working fulltime as a painter since 2003 and has been published in several books and magazines, and also picked up a Spectrum Gold Award for his comic cover Doomed #4. The Bavarian State Opera used his cosmonaut prints to promote their 2010 season.

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2012/03/05/artist-of-the-day-jeremy-geddes/feed/0Artist of the Day – Izzie Klingelshttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2011/02/12/artist-of-the-day-izzie-klingels/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2011/02/12/artist-of-the-day-izzie-klingels/#commentsSat, 12 Feb 2011 20:07:30 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.com/?p=182Izzie Klingels studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art. After graduating she founded Lazy Eye and created and directed live shows for bands including Death In Vegas and Beth Orton. Her work as an illustrator began in 2001 when she founded Hey Ladies fanzine with a group of female friends. Influenced by fairy tales, traditional folk illustrations, Vanitas paintings, psychedelic poster art, experimental film and surrealism she continues to explore different techniques and evolves her style.

Her work includes CD covers for Oasis and Goldfrapp, art for print like Nylon Magazine, NME, Italian Marie Claire, Vogue and The Guardian, as well as work for companies like Absolut Vodka, Calvin Klein, Miss Selfridge, Random House and Topshop among others.

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2011/02/12/artist-of-the-day-izzie-klingels/feed/0Artist of the Day – Ian Francishttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/10/29/artist-of-the-day-ian-francis/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/10/29/artist-of-the-day-ian-francis/#commentsFri, 29 Oct 2010 21:46:57 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.com/?p=172Super, super excited to have stumbled across Ian Francis. I haven’t liked an artist this much for a while and I am absolutely in love !

Ian Francis was born in 1979 in Bristol, England where he continues to live and work. Among his influences he names Reggie Pedro, Stanley Donwood and Dave McKean. Ian calls his work “apocalyptic” and he draws his inspiration from cinema, pornography, street culture, and images sampled at random from the Internet.

His solo exhibitions could be seen at the Lazarides Gallery, London (2010); the MTV Gallery in Sydney, Australia (2009); at Kinsey/DesForges in Los Angeles (2008); and the BLK/MRKT Gallery in Los Angeles (2007). His work has also been featured in the group exhibitions The Outsiders, Lazarides Gallery, London and New York (2008); and Free Parking, OKOK Gallery, Seattle (2007).

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/10/29/artist-of-the-day-ian-francis/feed/0Artist of the Day – James Roperhttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/05/13/artist-of-the-day-james-roper/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/05/13/artist-of-the-day-james-roper/#commentsThu, 13 May 2010 13:48:09 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.comellelovesart.comellelovesart.com/?p=132James Roper is an english artist born in 1982. He mimics bodily structures found within nature by constructing abstract bodies formed from multiple elements giving his art an anime like feel. Roper is heavily influenced by the excessive and sensuously rich imagery of Baroque art and it’s depiction of the unfettering of religious restraint.

His work has been shown in London, Milan, Los Angeles, New York, among others and has been published in magazines like Dazed and Confused and Art Review. He has been brought to my attention by a Spanish gallery and while I usually show only my favorite artists he warrants a place on my site as I instantly liked his work.

You can see his work here:
James Roper “Paroxysm” 18.05.2010 – 16.06.2010
ROJO®artspace Barcelona Carrer Girona 61. 08009 Barcelona, Spain

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/05/13/artist-of-the-day-james-roper/feed/1Artist of the Day – Jason Jägelhttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/04/25/artist-of-the-day-jason-jagel/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/04/25/artist-of-the-day-jason-jagel/#commentsSun, 25 Apr 2010 16:53:00 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.comellelovesart.comellelovesart.com/?p=128Born in 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts, Jason Jägel received 3 degrees from the California College of Arts and Crafts and Stanford University. He has been featured in numerous shows (solo and group) since 1995 including in New York, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Milan, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans among others. Jägel’s work appears in The Museum of Modern Art in NYC (collections), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The UCLA Hammer Museum and the Portland Museum of Art. He lives with his wife and two daughters in San Francisco.

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/04/25/artist-of-the-day-jason-jagel/feed/0Artist of the Day – Olaf Hajekhttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/04/15/artist-of-the-day-olaf-hajek/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/04/15/artist-of-the-day-olaf-hajek/#commentsThu, 15 Apr 2010 21:33:02 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.comellelovesart.comellelovesart.com/?p=121Olaf Hajek is a German illustrator, who resides in London, Germany and New York . Among other things he has worked for numerous magazines like Rolling Stone, Flaunt, GQ Magazine, SPIN, Maxim or Myself Magazine and illustrated advertisements for fashion as well as celebrity portraits.

Why I like his art:

Some of his work strangely reminded me of Botticelli right away and then I came across an illustration that acually had Botticelli’s Venus with a twist incorporated in it. Botticelli was the subject of my final art studies way back when … I love Hajek’s art because it is so imaginitive.

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/04/15/artist-of-the-day-olaf-hajek/feed/0Artist of the Day – Paul W. Ruizhttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/28/artist-of-the-day-paul-w-ruiz/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/28/artist-of-the-day-paul-w-ruiz/#commentsSun, 28 Mar 2010 23:09:32 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.comellelovesart.comellelovesart.com/?p=111Paul W. Ruiz is an Australian artist who studied Visual Arts at Melbourne University. Ruiz’s primary work was technology driven and spun across several industries while he found himself more and more fascinated by visual analysis, drawing and painting of the human figure. His first solo exhibition in Melbourne November 2005 was well received and Ruiz has since then found eager collectors in and outside of Australia.

Why I like his art:
The subjects of his paintings almost appear to have an emotionally dark photographs from a past like quality.

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/28/artist-of-the-day-paul-w-ruiz/feed/2Artist of the Day – Gary Hirschhttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/19/artist-of-the-day-gary-hirsch/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/19/artist-of-the-day-gary-hirsch/#commentsFri, 19 Mar 2010 21:16:52 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.comellelovesart.comellelovesart.com/?p=95Again, there is not much I know about the artist but his “doodles”, as he calls them, are gorgeous and fabulously fun. I really, really love them ! Gary Hirsch was born in 1964 and grew up in Cleveland Heights Ohio and now lives with his family (wife and two kids) in Portland, Oregon.

“Doodling” does not seem to be his “main” occupation (nor art) but his pictures are so fabulous that I think it should be !

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]]>http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/19/artist-of-the-day-gary-hirsch/feed/0Artist of the Day – Ebon Heathhttp://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/14/artist-of-the-day-ebon-heath/
http://www.ellelovesart.com/2010/03/14/artist-of-the-day-ebon-heath/#commentsSun, 14 Mar 2010 22:11:02 +0000ellehttp://www.ellelovesart.comellelovesart.comellelovesart.com/?p=83I don’t know much about Ebon Heath other than I love his typographic sculptures and his play with type and shapes and that his art has been described as visual poetry.

He works in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at the City University in the Bronx. When you look at his work, which goes into various directions, it’s almost like it’s alive and because I love the play with type/words & shapes I had to have him on my site.